SOC 633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Industrial Revolution, Heterosexuality, Orgasm
27 Feb 2018
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Soc 633 week 3: social and moral regulation: sex as practice. When talking about sex we talk about the practices of sex meaning sexuality The meaning of sex is a product of both individual and social factors. Sex is not something that is biological to us we don t know how to do it right away hood. Sex is a social construction and something that we learn about as we grow into adult. How we understand sex is culturally and socially constructed. Sex is not universal it is culturally specific: the social constructionist paradigm. Lynne segal says there are 3 things for sex: spiritual, biological, social. Sex was understood through religion as it was the dominate ideology. The religious dominance on sex changed with the industrial revolution. Religious discourse was that you could not question the word of the pope. In the industrial revolution scientific inquiry began and with this comes new technological development.
